rye, I don’t see DD as being “blame the assistants” kind of guy. Perhaps you do. let’s agree to not waste our time trying to prove ourselves right. I know of times that he was guilty of at a minimum careless about what he said or how he said it. My last word and I’ll offer you the very last word if you want it, the assistant coaches seem to like working for Doeren. If he were throwing them under the bus (not on the bus) I doubt that would be true nor would new hires be clamoring to come here to coach. (Ledford, Drink, Patrick, Henry)
We’ll never know the true story on how Doeren and Hux worked to get the defense together. Some decisions were only Doeren’s to make such as switching to the 4-2-5 and when to do it (2014). Neither Hux nor Doeren had a 4-2-5 background and I would guess the 4-2-5 was discussed and researched by both. Bottom line I can’t see Doeren expecting Hux to coach a defense he wasn’t fully invested in.
We both have seen or know of Doeren barking at Hux going into the locker room at half-time. Depending on who we wanted to make wrong we could make that mean anything we wanted to make it mean. More than likely IMO all it meant was Doeren was upset at what he saw happen with the defense and Hux is the guy he talks to or yells at about it. It doesn’t even mean it was something that Hux himself did. I have chewed a foreman out for something a mechanic did. Later the mechanic caught it from the foreman. Sh!t runs down hill.
